Appalled via what she'd visible of the Nazis in Berlin and Vienna, Nancy joined a resistance workforce in Marseilles supporting to smuggle out escaped British prisoners. by means of 1943, Nancy had develop into the #1 goal at the Gestapo's such a lot sought after checklist, and there has been a 5 million-franc fee on her head.

44 At the same time, the spiritual themes and forms that thread through the manuscript suggest a devout one. In fact, all of the L narrators urge prayer for the reader or writer’s personal salvation, positioning a prayerful stance as the natural response to reading or hearing each narrative. At the end of each narrated saint’s life and death, the addressee is enjoined to deploy the reading/hearing of each saint as a prayer for his or her soul: “Nou god graunti þat we mote with him [St. 232). In like manner, the narrators of Havelok and Horn also request God to lead the souls of the dead protagonists (Horn 1643–44) or the soul of the writer himself who has “þe rym maked” (Havelok 2999) to “heuene” (Horn 1644).

Part Two, “The Manuscript and Its Texts” brings such features as well as other literary considerations to bear on contextualized interpretation of the texts contained in the manuscript. Conceived as a whole book, these chapters engage in a critical conversation about the intertextual relationships among the L texts and address the manner in which the physical features of the manuscript reinforce and support such dialectic exchanges. Many agree, others do not, and of course, these investigations leave room for further study.